Why Is the Rebbe Buried in Uman?My Uman, 5787

Kollel Toras Chaim All Shiurim · Sep 23, 2026 · 25m

Sitting around the table after Rosh Hashana, telling it the way you'd tell a friend who has never been.

It starts with the week before — a couple of hundred people and easy access to the tziyun on Sunday, harder on Monday, and by Tuesday you had to push your way through. Waves of people arriving every day until the whole place filled.

And then the question somebody asks that nobody ever really answers: why is he buried in Uman at all?

Thirty years before the Rebbe was born, Gonta came through, city by city. A fire in the square and a tzelem beside it — convert or jump. The mayor of Uman came…